[SOLVED] Firefox 28 stopped using hardware acceleration

Up to Firefox 27, one could start Firefox with
MOZ_ACCELERATED=1 MOZ_GLX_IGNORE_BLACKLIST=1 firefox
or you could set
layers.acceleration.force-enabled=true
in about:config. Then you could check, whether Firefox uses hw-acceleration in about:support. There should be written something like "GPU-accelerated windows 1/1 OpenGL" instead of "0/1 Basic".
Since Firefox 28, this doesn't work anymore and graphical glitches came back (see here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=178024)
Any ideas/hints?
EDIT: nvidia 334.21-2, linux 3.13.6-1
Last edited by _abraxas (2014-03-19 17:46:35)

I'm suffering the same issue here, using nouveau drivers.
Just to throw it out there, I'm convinced nobody packaging for arch broke anything this time , I lost this capability using aurora (installed locally from mozilla ftp) some time ago but didnt really notice/look until version 29.
Nevermind, I seem to have fixed it after some searching: http://featherweightmusings.blogspot.co … refox.html
export MOZ_USE_OMTC=1
layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled ==> true
Result:
GPU Accelerated Windows 1/1 OpenGL (OMTC)
Last edited by Psykorgasm (2014-03-19 17:33:42)

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